Adjustable breast-fastening for blankets.



G. C. RASCH.

ADJUSTABLE BREAST FASTENING FOR BLANKETS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-9.1912.

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ADJUSTABLE: REASTEASTENING FOR BLANKEIS.

Specification of Iietters P atent.

Patented 01215.5 1915.

Application filed December 9,1912. Serial No. 735,594..

To all wkom it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAVE Cl Rason, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Racine and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful ln'iprovements'in Adjustable Breast-Fastenings for Blankets, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying"drawing, form ing a part thereof. 1

The main objects of the invention are to adapta blanket of a givensize to animals of different sizesor havingnecks of different sizes; to facilitate fitting and fastening such a blanket in place on a horse, and to securely hold the front edges flatlyand snugly lapped over the breast of the horse without themner lap folding back or upon itself.

It consists in the peculiar construction and in the arrangement and combination of part-s as hereinafter particularly described and defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing like charac" ters designate the same parts in the figures."

Figure 1 is a View of the front portion of a horse blanket provided with breast fastenings in accordance with the present invention, the front edges being lapped over and fastened to opposite parts of the blanket; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the overlapping front edge unfastened and turned back to display the underlying members or parts of the fastenings, and Fig. 3, an end view of the hook, looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1, on a scale twice as large as that of Figs. 1 and 2.

In the manufacture of horse blankets it is impossible, or at least very difficult, especially in fashioned or shaped blankets, to make them fit snugly and properly around the necks and over the breasts of horses of different sizes and build, and thus afford adequate protection around the necks and over the breasts, where it is especially needed. To secure this object it would be necessary to shape or fit the blankets to the individual animals, which is obviously impracticable, or to make blankets of any given size adjustable within certain limits to horses of different sizes or build. In accordance with the latter method, a blanket is constructed and provided with adjustable breast fastenings in the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawing, a designates a blanket approximately fitted at the front or drawn alternately in and out, bands or straps (Z, which form a series of loops 0, and may be made of webbing, leather or other suitable material possessing the requisitestrength and flexibility. The strips 6 with the bands d, are secured at intervals between the loops 6, one to the inner side and the other to the outer side of the blanket adjacent and transversely to its front edges below the neck, by rivets, staples or other suitable fastenings f. i

Hooks 9, formed with eyes 7t, are secured to' the front edges of the blanket by looping or passing through the eyes it the inner ends of the bands (Z, which are folded back upon themselves and each secured by one or more of the rivets or fastenings f to the blanket. The downwardly extending hooks are each adapted to be engaged with any of the loops 6 on the opposite side of the blanket and thus securely hold the lapped edges of the blanket in place, as shown in Fig. 1. Adjacent to its end on the lower side of the fastening, each hook is bent toward its eye it, to prevent its disengagement from the loop 6 in which it is inserted. It is also bent slightly in a lateral direction transverse to the plane of the hook, the point of the inner or underlying hook being bent outwardly, while the point of the outer or overlying hook is bent inwardly, to facilitate entering it into the loops 6 and prevent it from catching on otherobjects and the inner hook from scratching or irritating the animal on which the blanket is placed. For the sake of additional strength and security the strips Z) and bands (Z may be fastened with the ordinary breast stays 2' to the blanket, as shown.

lVith fastenings so constructed and applied to a blanket the front edges of the blanket may be lapped more or less, so that the neck opening will fit closely and properly around the necks of horses of different sizes and each of the lapping edges will be securely held in place smooth and flat against the other, thereby preventing the wrinkling or folding in or back upon itself of the inner lap, and afiording adequate protection for the breast of the animal where such protection is especially needed. The

fastenings are easily manipulated in adjustit off.

In applying the blanket to a horse the overlying edge being turned back as shown in Fig. 2, the hook on the opposite edge is inserted in the proper loop on the inner side of the outturned edge, which isthen folded into place and the hook thereon is inserted in the corresponding loop 6 on the underlying portion of the blanket. To remove the blanket the fastenings are obviously disconnected in reverse order.

I claim:

1. Adjustable breast fastenings for blankets consisting of strips of flexible material each formed with a number of transverse slits, flexible bands drawnalternately in and out through said slits and forming a series of loops, the strips being secured with the bands at intervals between the loops, one to the inner side and the other to the outer side of a blanket adjacent and transversely to its front edges, and hooks attached to the blanket at the ends of said strips adjacent to the front edges of the blanket and'each adapted to be engaged with any of the series of loops of the opposite band.

2. Adjustable breast fastenings for blan kets consisting of two flexible strips each Copies of this patent may be obtained for formed at intervals with a number of transverse slits, flexible bands woven alternately in and out through said slits and each forming a series of loops, the strips being attached with the bands between the loops, one to the inner side and the other to the outer side of a blanket adjacent and transversely toits front edges below the neck, and hooks secured to the blanket adjacent to its front edges by looped ends of the bands and each adapted to be engaged with any loop of the opposite band.

'3. Adjustable breast fastenings for blankets consisting of bands attached at intervals one to the inner side and the other to the outer side of a blanket and forming two series of loops adjacent and transversely to its front edges, and hooks secured to the blanket adjacent to the inner ends'of the series of loops and" having their downwardly projecting points bent backward and laterally, the point of the underlying hook being bent laterally outward while the point of the overlying hook is bent laterally inward.

In witness whereof I hereto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GUSTAVE C. RASCH.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. WALLER, ETTA J URANEK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

